Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

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The new species, named Skiphosoura bavarica, was identified by a team led by Dr David Hone, a palaeontologist from Queen Mary ...

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What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

(via Veritasium) The mistakes of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, and the physics that could have saved her.

The first "blueprint" of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of ...

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Now that November 5th is in the rearview, the pressing task of governing—and governing well—is before President-elect Donald ...

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